Apple Prepares 2nm Chips for 2025 Production

According to the Taiwan media Electronic Times, according to a source from the semiconductor back-end service provider, Apple has been actively preparing 2nm chips and hopes to cooperate with TSMC to apply a new node for its internally developed processor, which is scheduled to enter mass production in 2025.

It is reported that the self-developed A series and M series chips carried by Apple's iPhone, iPad and Mac were delivered to TSMC. The M1 and A15 Apple processors are manufactured using the 5nm process. Apple had hoped to transition to the 3nm process this year, but TSMC failed to solve the mass production problem in the second half of this year, so the new M2 and A16 chips still use the 5nm process. M3 chip is expected to be Apple's first product with 3nm process.

It is reported that Apple's hardware products are expected to be equipped with 2nm process chips in 2025. The source said that Apple's back-end testing supply chain has also been promoting equipment upgrading and preparing new facilities for 2nm process nodes. The source said that the 2nm process technology will become the first TSMC to use a nano chip based gate omnidirectional field effect node transistor (GAAFET), rather than a mature FinFET architecture.